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The History
The Ohio Glory played one season (1992) in the World League of American Football, which
would later become NFL Europe. Columbus, Ohio was awarded the WLAF franchise after the Raleigh-Durham Skyhawks posted
an 0-10 season. Ohio didn't do much better, posting a 1-9 record after one season of play. The sole win came at the expense
of the Frankfurt Galaxy in week 7, a 20-17 victory in Columbus. The Glory played their home games in Ohio Stadium on
Ohio State University's campus, which at the time had a seating capacity of 91,470 (now 102,329). Their head coach was Larry
Little, and they participated in the North American East division. Their first draft pick was former San Diego, Dallas, Washington,
New Orlean, Kansas City NFL quarterback Babe Laufenberg. www.wikipedia.org
The Coach
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Larry Little Pro Football Hall of Fame Induction 1993 |
Lawrence Chatmon Little (born November
2, 1945, in Groveland, Georgia) is a former guard in college and professional American football. He has been
elected to the National Football League's Hall of Fame. Larry Little played collegiately at Bethune-Cookman
College. Undrafted out of college, Little began his professional career as a free agent with the American Football League's
San Diego Chargers in 1967 and 1968, and was traded to the AFL's Miami Dolphins for the 1969 season, when he was named an
AFL All-Star. He then played with the National Football League Dolphins from 1970 through 1980. Little on the Miami Dolphin Honor Roll at Dolphin Stadium. "I
didn't particularly like the trade," Little said in the January 1974 issue of SPORT magazine. "The Dolphins weren't
much then." Little was a key contributor to the success of the Dolphins' punishing running attack
of the early and mid 1970's, which featured Larry Csonka, Mercury Morris, and Jim Kiick. In 1999, he
was ranked number 79 on The Sporting News' list of the 100 Greatest Football Players. Little's
younger brother, David Little, was a linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers. In 1992 he became head coach
of the Ohio Glory of the World League of American Football. He also served as head coach of his alma mater, as well as being
head coach at North Carolina Central University during the 1990s. In 2007 was named to the Florida High
School Association All-Century Team which selected the Top 33 players in the 100 year history of high school football in the
state of Florida's history. Position(s) Offensive Guard | Jersey #(s) 66 |
| Born | November 2, 1945 (1945-11-02) (age 63) Groveland, Georgia |
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Career
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Year(s) | 1967–1980 |
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NFL Draft | 1967 / Round: / Pick: |
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College | Bethune-Cookman |
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Professional teams |
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- San Diego Chargers (1967-1968)
- Miami Dolphins (1969-1980)
| Career stats |
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Games played | 183 |
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Games Started | 157 |
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Fumble Recoveries | 6 |
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Stats at NFL.com | Stats at pro-football-reference.com | Career highlights and awards |
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- 4× Pro Bowl selection (1971, 1972, 1973, 1974)
- AFL All-Star selection (1969)
- NFL 1970s All-Decade Team
- Miami Dolphins Honor Roll
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www.wikipedia.org
The Stadium
Ohio Stadium (also known
simply as The ’Shoe and The House Harley Built)
The Ohio Glory Uniform
The Ohio Glory uniform is one of the hardest uniforms to find in collector's circles (I can attest to
that) mostly because they were only around for one year (this also goes for the Raleigh-Durham Skyhawks and the England Monarchs)
and no one knows where they all went. The Glory jersey was made by Wilson like the rest of the league. The home
jersey was blue with red and white stripes on the sleeves with the Glory logo in the middle. The numbers were white
with a red outline. The away jersey was white except for the blue sleeves (this was seen in away jerseys in
1992 for WLAF teams) with the same stripes and logo. The numbers on the away jersey were blue with red lettering.
The pants were white with red and blue stripes and were made by Wilson. The helmet was made by Riddell and had
either a white Kra-Lite facemask or a white regualar one (some of the orginal facemasks were blue - training camp).
The socks of the Glory were sort of unique with the home uniform's socks being white with a blue top and the away uniform
having white with a red top. Gloves and sweatbands were made by Neumann. The glory also wore Nike cleats
with a red swoosh. At one point, the Glory had a patch on their left-side chest. This patch was for the celebration
of Ameriflora. This event commemorated the quincentenary anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas.
This celebration started on April 3, 1992 so they started wearing it on April 4 when they played Orlando for their first
game.
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1992 Ohio Glory Home Jersey |
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Glory Home Jersey (back) |
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1992 Ohio Glory Helmet |
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1992 Ohio Glory Socks |
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1992 Ohio Glory Away Jersey in Action |
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1992 Ohio Glory Home Jersey in action with Columbus Patch on Jersey |
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1992 Ohio Glory Uniform "Columbus 92" 180 year Columbus, OH and 200th Columbus anniversary patch |
1992 SeasonNote: W = Wins, L = Losses,
T = Ties Season | W | L | T | Finish | Playoff
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1992 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 4th North American East | -- |
1992
Ohio Glory Results Regular Season | Date | Opponent | Result | Record | Attend. | 03/22/1992 | Ohio
Glory @ Orlando Thunder | L, 13-9 | 0-1-0 | 10,622 | 03/29/1992 | Sacramento Surge @ Ohio Glory | L, 17-6 | 0-2-0 | 37,837 | 04/05/1992 | Orlando Thunder @ Ohio Glory | L,
28-3 | 0-3-0 | 31,232 | 04/12/1992 | Ohio
Glory @ Montreal Machine | L, 31-20 | 0-4-0 | 28,533 | 04/19/1992 | Ohio Glory @ San Antonio Riders | L, 17-0 | 0-5-0 | 10,422 | 04/26/1992 | Ohio Glory @ Barcelona Dragons | L,
20-10 | 0-6-0 | 49,657 | 05/02/1992
(Sat.) | Frankfurt Galaxy @ Ohio Glory | W, 20-17 | 1-6-0 | 41,853 | 05/10/1992 | New York/New Jersey Knights @ Ohio Glory | L, 39-33 OT | 1-7-0 | 20,516 | 05/16/1992 (Sat.) | Ohio
Glory @ Sacramento Surge | L, 21-7 | 1-8-0 | 21,272 | 05/23/1992 (Sat.) | Birmingham Fire @ Ohio Glory | L, 27-24 | 1-9-0 | 23,020 |
1992 WLAF Statistics - Ohio Glory Passing | Player | Att | Cmp | Pct | Yds | Avg | Lg | TD | TD% | Int | Int% | Sack | Loss | Rating | Pat O'Hara | 201 | 116 | 57.7 | 1188 | 5.91 | 99t | 3 | 1.5 | 11 | 5.5 | 18 | 106 | 57.0 | Babe Laufenberg | 115 | 62 | 53.9 | 622 | 5.41 | 43 | 2 | 1.7 | 6 | 5.2 | 14 | 113 | 53.6 | Greg Frey | 61 | 31 | 50.8 | 452 | 7.41 | 52 | 3 | 4.9 | 1 | 1.6 | 2 | 12 | 84.9 | Amir Rasul | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 100.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | TOTALS | 378 | 209 | 55.3 | 2262 | 5.98 | 99t | 8 | 2.1 | 19 | 5.0 | 0 | 0 | 59.2 |
Punting | Player | Punts | Yds | Avg | Lg | TB | In20 | Blk | Ret | Yds | Net | Tom Rouen | 48 | 1992 | 41.5 | 85 | 3 | 14 | 1 | 23 | 163 | 36.1 | TOTALS | 48 | 1992 | 41.5 | 85 | 3 | 14 | 1 | 23 | 163 | 36.1 |
Kicking | Player | 0-19 | 20-29 | 30-39 | 40-49 | 50+ | All | Lg | PAT | Pts | Jerry Kauric | 0/1 | 4/6 | 0/0 | 2/6 | 1/1 | 7/14 | 50 | 9/10 | 30 | TOTALS | 0/1 | 4/6 | 0/0 | 2/6 | 1/1 | 7/14 | 50 | 9/10 | 30 |
1992
Ohio Glory Roster Player | Pos | G | GS | | Birthdate | | College | 31 Adams, Michael | DB | -- | -- | | 04/05/1964 | | Arkansas State | 32 Bennett, Antoine | DB | -- | -- | | 11/29/1967 | | Florida A&M | 88 Bethel, Randy | TE | -- | -- | | 09/06/1969 | | Miami | 90 Brown, Marlon | LB | -- | -- | | 06/30/1962 | | Memphis | 75 Butts, Anthony | DT | -- | -- | | 08/12/1966 | | Mississippi State | 28 Carr, Lydell | RB | -- | -- | | 05/27/1965 | | Oklahoma | 41 Codrington, Nigel | WR | -- | -- | | 08/20/1968 | | Rice | 72 Coles, Karl | OG | -- | -- | | 02/23/1967 | | Ohio State | 21 Courville, Vince | WR | -- | -- | | 12/05/1959 | | Rice | 61 Curtis, Bobby | LB | -- | -- | | 10/23/1964 | | Savannah State | 95 Dickson, Joel | DE | -- | -- | | 12/16/1967 | | California | 14 Frey, Greg | QB | -- | -- | | 00/00/0000 | | Ohio State | 22 Gard, Darryl 86 Glover, Deval | RB WR | -- | -- | | 09/30/1969 09/12/1966 | | Bluffton Syracuse
| 29 Grant, African | DB | -- | -- | | 08/02/1965 | | Illinois | 76 Graybill, Mike | OT | -- | -- | | 10/14/1966 | | Boston University | 42 Hardy, John 60 Harmon, Eric | CB OG | -- | -- | | 06/11/1968 03/03/1967 | | Cal-Berkeley Clemson
| 56 Harvey, Stacy | LB | -- | -- | | 03/08/1965 | | Arizona State | 21 Herring, Archie 89 Hughes, Darren | RB WR | -- | -- | | 09/16/1967 06/03/1967 | | Youngstown
St. Carson-Newman | 87
Ihnat, Eric 98 Jackson, Charles | TE DT | -- | -- | | 08/18/1968 08/04/1966 | | Marshall Jackson
State | 82 Jackson, Patrick | WR | -- | -- | | 07/08/1969 | | Stephen F. Austin | 26 James, Tim | DB | -- | -- | | 12/11/1967 | | Colorado | 64 Jefferson, Ben | OG | -- | -- | | 01/15/1966 | | Maryland | 90 Jimerson, A.J. | LB | -- | -- | | 05/12/1968 | | Norfolk State | 7 Kauric, Jerry | K | -- | -- | | 06/28/1963 | | | 59 Koonce, George | LB | -- | -- | | 10/15/1968 | | East Carolina | 11 Laufenberg, Babe | QB | -- | -- | | 12/05/1959 | | Indiana | 83 Logan, Phil | WR | -- | -- | | 03/07/1969 | | Kentucky | 78 Mull, Curt | OT | -- | -- | | 04/17/1967 | | Georgia | 26/35 Nicholson, Calvin | DB | -- | -- | | 07/09/1967 | | Oregon State | 6 O'Hara, Pat | QB | -- | -- | | 09/27/1968 | | Southern California | 54 Owens, Kerry | LB | -- | -- | | 07/16/1966 | | Arkansas | 84 Patterson, Melvin | WR | -- | -- | | 09/07/1965 | | Stephen F. Austin | 71 Quinton, Dustin | OT | -- | -- | | 09/12/1968 | | Nevada-Las Vegas | 20 Rasul, Amir | RB | -- | -- | | 07/03/1969 | | Florida A&M | 77 Rolen, Chad | DT | -- | -- | | 03/02/1968 | | Arkansas | 5 Rouen, Tom | P | -- | -- | | 06/09/1968 | | Colorado | 33 Ruffin, Aaron | DB | -- | -- | | 05/17/1969 | | Nicholls State | 52 Snelson, Eric 70 Sunvold, Mike | LB DT | -- | -- | | 07/20/1965 09/21/1967 | | Stanford Minnesota
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Tunney, Jono | RB LB | -- | -- | | 02/15/1964 10/01/1968 | | Miami
(OH) Stanford | 53
Vines, Ken | C | -- | -- | | 05/03/1967 | | Central State | 30 Walker, Adam | RB | -- | -- | | 06/07/1968 | | Pittsburgh | 24 Wallace, Jason | DB | -- | -- | | 08/28/1969 | | Virginia | 73 Wells, Kent | DT | -- | -- | | 07/25/1967 | | Nebraska | 23 Willis, Darren | DB | -- | -- | | 12/19/1964 | | Arizona State | 51 Wilson, Curtis | C | -- | -- | | 10/30/1965 | | Missouri | 85 Wilson, Walter | WR | -- | -- | | 10/06/1966 | | East Carolina |
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Cochrane, Chris QB (3rd String until assigned to Galaxy when Perez and Espinoza were injured)
Notable Players
Babe Laufenberg spent almost ten years in the NFL prior to the WLAF starting with the Washington Redskins
in 1983, New Orleans Saints in 1987, San Diego Chargers in 1988, Dallas Cowboys from 1989 to 1990 and then to the Kansas City
Chiefs in 1991. Tom Rouen started off his career with the Glory and made his way to the NFL the following year and played
there until 2005 where he played for the Seattle Seahawks. George Koonce went right from playing with the Glory to the
Green Bay Packers where he played for 8 years. He ended his career in Seattle in 2000. Another notable player was Pat
O'Hara who was Laufenberg's backup QB. He was signed in 1991 to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, then he went to the Glory,
then the Chargers and Redskins. After 1994, he went into the Arena Football League were he played for ten years. He
is also notable for being in numerous football movies like Any Given Sunday, The Waterboy as well as working on the crews
of movies like The Longest Yard (2005) and We Are Marshall.
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